The classic name has been brought back to life by Finnish start-up HMD Global. It’s Nokia-branded but they’re the people behind it.

Nokia is busy working on a number of new Android devices that it wants to challenge the dominance of the iPhone, but in the meantime it is keeping fans of the Nokia name satisfied by selling a reworked version of the 17-year-old design classic.

Don’t expect anything modern or flashy. You can get data on this phone but only at 2.5G – a far cry from the speedy 4G your smartphone loves to use.

You don’t have a touchscreen as everything is controlled by a four-way direction pad – and don’t expect an on-screen keyboard, you’re back to typing out the letters by pressing the number 7 four times.

What you do get is a rock solid phone for taking calls on, up to a month of stand-by time and 22 hours of talk time before you have to recharge the phone.

And yes, it has the classic Nokia ringtone and it plays Snake.

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Running the Series 30+ operating system means it can run older Java based games and apps – that’s how HMD has installed a colourful version of Snake on the 3310.

You also have Opera’s web browser, which strips out all the videos and flashy layout of the modern web to show you just the text. It’s enough to read Metro’s website and post status updates to Facebook, but don’t expect to stream YouTube just yet.

The 3310 is certainly more compact than a smartphone (Picture: Reuters/Eddie Keogh)

There are times when you don’t want to be carrying a £700 smartphone with you. As summer approaches the idea of having a ‘second phone’ makes a lot more sense.

You don’t need to worry too much about damaging a phone like the Nokia 3310 at a music festival, you don’t need ridiculously huge pockets to carry it and the legends about the 3310’s indestructibility are all true.

It won’t replace your smartphone on the next business trip, but the Nokia 3310 is your second phone for a summer of fun.